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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp•com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Cc: "David Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	leandroal@gmail•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki•fi>
Subject: Re: TCP packet size and delivery packet decisions
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:57:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C866EFD.4060404@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1283859552.2338.402.camel@edumazet-laptop>

> Is there a hard requirement about segment size being at most half the
> window ?

In the deep, dark, past of other stacks, there were concerns about devolving 
into stop-start.  I suppose from a theoretical standpoint, there is a chance 
that MSS==window, coupled with immediate ACKnowledgement on the receiver could 
send zero windows that might elicit undesirable probes?

rick jones

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-07 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AANLkTi=_heUejVf-wmEcKd910gVtpD7Hr=cZ_cs2Q8n9@mail.gmail.com>
2010-09-07  4:20 ` TCP packet size and delivery packet decisions ツ Leandro Melo de Sales
2010-09-07  4:36   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-07  5:13     ` ツ Leandro Melo de Sales
2010-09-07  5:16       ` David Miller
2010-09-07  5:21         ` ツ Leandro Melo de Sales
2010-09-07  5:30           ` David Miller
2010-09-07  6:02             ` ツ Leandro Melo de Sales
2010-09-07  6:09               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-07  7:16                 ` ツ Leandro Melo de Sales
2010-09-07  7:32                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-08 14:01                     ` ツ Leandro Melo de Sales
2010-09-07 11:39             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-07 12:15               ` Ilpo Järvinen
2010-09-08  3:18                 ` David Miller
2010-09-08 12:14                   ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2010-09-13  1:23                     ` David Miller
2010-09-14  9:37                       ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2010-09-15 17:29                         ` David Miller
2010-09-07 16:35               ` David Miller
2010-09-07 16:57               ` Rick Jones [this message]
2010-09-08 14:06               ` ツ Leandro Melo de Sales
2010-09-08 15:24                 ` David Miller
2010-09-08 16:03                   ` ツ Leandro Melo de Sales

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